Posted on 09/09/2004 6:38:26 PM PDT by freedumb2003
DALLAS -- A candlelight vigil took place Wednesday night to remember U.S. war dead in Iraq during the week of the 1,000th casualty. One North Texas family, whose relative -- Chad Drake -- was killed outside Baghdad Monday, was among the mourners at Dallas City Hall Plaza.
The vigil, though, turned abrasive toward the family members, according to a family friend. The friend sent an e-mail message to NBC 5 News that described the treatment some vigil attendees directed at the family.
Drake's mother was "harassed and yelled at, booed and hissed, told her son died for nothing," the message read.
Drake's mother reportedly left the event in tears.
The family attended the vigil because they thought it was meant to honor U.S. casualties. The event was organized by the Dallas Peace Center, which opposes the war.
The Drake family was upset about the antiwar tenor of the assembled crowd. The director of the Dallas Peace Center said the event was not intended to be an antiwar rally, but said e-mail notifications of the vigil were sent to a broad audience. Because the venue is a public place, he said, a variety of people with various views on the war in Iraq attended.
He also said the event was planned to include political overtones, but the Drake family should have been informed.
The center, however, did issue an apology to the Drake family.
"I want to be clear in issuing an apology to the mother of the recent victim of that war," Lon Burnam, of the Dallas Peace Center, said. "I can certainly understand why she would not feel comfortable in that particular venue with that particular group of people."
Peace Center officials said they believe the Drake family left before the scheduled events started, and the family might not have seen the planned ceremony.
Drake's sister told NBC 5 News that the family thought some of the crowd was hostile, so the family departed the vigil.
Please, if anybody knows how to get in touch with this family, we've got to do it. Send them flowers, a note, anything, we CANNOT let this stand.
We cannot let this mother think that her precious child died defending an America is made of scums like that, because if that were true then he did die in vain.
Nah. No reason to depress them.
I ping my troop support list for my care packages thread when there is news from our contact soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I ping both it and my patriots list for what impresses me as information that changes the lay of the land.
The first list are requests that signed on, the second list was gleaned so I don't want to abuse it.
This isn't how it came across on TV. I think I saw the lead in to this story on NBC - Channel 5.
I wish these people would go to Iraq and volunteer to be human shields.
thanks JFraudKerry for reminding people that our soldiers lives are meaningless. These people are scum
There isnt a swear strong enough
Pieces of slime just like this sent a letter to the late General Jimmie Stewart on the occasion of the death in combat of his son Lance Corporal Stewart in Viet Nam.
Give me an e-mail address of these clowns and I'll tell them what I really think of these pieces of trash.
Nasty to them does not cover it. I'll show them the violence I learned in the month of Feb. 1968. Then someone can tell their mothers that their sicko children died for "nothing".
Looks like something Salvadore Dali would have painted if he had no talent.
Kathy,
can you help us contact the service family?
Even indirectly?
Hate America at work.
Les Batards!
While the help would be welcome, we, ex and current military members, don't need it. There's a Cowboy in the White House, and plenty more in Texas. Many of them once wore the country's uniform. This time we will defend our own.
Probably right...
Makes me sick to think of it
I have two responses to that graphic:
(A) The Goering quote is a paraphrased redaction of what he said. It has been propagated (by "propagandists") as fact but even Snopes had to admit that it was edited (even though they call it "TRUE"). Then again Snopes leans left.
Claim: Hermann Goering proclaimed that although "the people don't want war," they "can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders." (Status: True.)
(B) If he's such a fan of searching for "truth" in Nazi propaganda, perhaps you should share with him this broadcast from Mildred Gillars (AKA "Axis Sally") that sounds a lot like Axis Mikey Moore and other outspoken "leftists":
Axis Sally attacks the position "America 'right or wrong'" (download the WAV)
Time for an anti-FReep. How do we get in touch with this family to thank them for their sacrifice??
Their first mistake was assuming that the peace groups give a rat's rear end about the soldiers for whom they are holding the 'vigil'.
These peaceniks are total trash for treating a soldier's family this way!
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